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===Reunion with Eris===

{{Quote|I will teach you what I know. Executions are so much more fun when the martyr thinks they have a chance against the lion.|Toland, the Shattered}}

When [[Eris Morn]] became trapped in the [[Ascendant Realm]], Toland reunited with his old fireteam member, despite her initial suspicions after surviving an encounter with the [[Savathûn,_the_Witch-Queen|Witch-Queen]]. As they both reflected on their experience with their tragic descent into the Hellmouth, Toland brought up the idea that [[Pyramid|something]] greater was at play and how [[Savathûn, the Witch Queen|Savathûn]] was previously goading Eris into looking into. He last warned her of the dangers she was treading into before she was warped away to the [[Dreaming City]].  

After Eris had accidentally triggered the appearance of the [[Nightmare]]s, Toland turned his attention to the Moon. While monitoring the Hive's activity, he began sharing information with Guardians willing to listen. When Eris sent the Guardian on a quest to harness the Hive's Deathsong, Toland decided to aid them out of curiosity. He guided the Guardian to different components needed to access the song and watched as they slew a new choir of Deathsingers gathering underneath the Moon and used their remains to create the [[Deathbringer]].

==Personality and traits==

His main motivation and driving force always seemed to be curiosity. He possesses a deep hunger for knowledge and secrets, even willing to risk his very being to learn them; Eris remarked that made him predictable, regarding his earlier appearance in Mara Sov's throne world. He takes joy in preaching his beliefs and findings, and feeling his words are falling for deaf ears irritates him greatly. He seems to be enjoying his role of a foul guide, laying out a trail of breadcrumbs and watching others follow it. Even his bitterness towards the Guardian would in time be defeated by this - in [[A Hum of Starlight]] he angrily remarks he will not be our Virgil guiding us through the dark, and when we meet him again on the Moon in [[Shadowkeep]], he proceeds to do just that.

His relationship to his fireteam was a complicated one, as they valued the knowledge he possessed but were distrustful of his secretiveness, Eris even accusing him of "holding [his] secrets like weapons" in order to doom them.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/12/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Dark Below]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Exalted_Hive#Eyes_of_Crota|Eyes of Crota]]''</ref> Eriana blamed him for the fireteam's tragic end<ref name="Patrol:H">'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4'', Patrol dialogue: the Hellmouth</ref>, and her Ghost [[Jax]] urged anyone listening not to trust Toland in its last transmission.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Luna's Lost#Ghost Fragment: Eriana-3's Ghost|Luna's Lost - Ghost Fragment: Eriana-3's Ghost]]''</ref>. Eris herself seems to have conflicting feelings about him, feeling as if she should not miss him yet listing him among her friends and arguing that "a fireteam's bond are not so easily undone".<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4'', Lost Mementos: Memory of Toland, the Shattered</ref>.

*''We all died once, and it did not prove insurmountable.''

*''Eris, Eris, what a name, a name for discord a name for far cold orbits where no living thing should dare to go...''

*''Listen - death is the last part of living and life is learning to die. The song is the same as the singing; the last truth commands me to eat all the light in the sky.''

*''What does it mean to die so many times, at the hands of so many enemies and allies? What has death taught you, Guardian? How has it shaped you?''

*''Will you be prepared? Or will you be... boring?''

*''Listen, listen...''

*''Come slayer of Oryx. I have words for you.''

*''Will you listen? Or will you be like your Vanguard?''

**''[[Curse of Osiris]]'' {{Mo}}

**''[[Forsaken]]''

**''[[Shadowkeep]]''

**''[[Beyond Light]]'' {{Mo}}

**''[[The Witch Queen]]'' {{Mo}}